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13 \item[ADC] Analog to Digital Converters
14 \item[AIMMS] Advanced Interactive Multidimensional Modeling System
15 \item[AMPL] A Mathematical Programming Language
16 \item[ASR] Active Sensors Ratio
17 \item[BCP] Branch Cut and Price
18 \item[CBC] COIN-OR Branch and Cut
19 \item[CG] Column Generation
20 \item[CMOS] Complementary Metal-Oxide-Silicon
21 \item[CNSC] Correlated Node Set Computing
22 \item[COIN-OR] COmputational INfrastructure for Operations Research
23 \item[CR] Coverage Ratio
24 \item[CSB] Cover Sets Balance
25 \item[DASSA] Distributed Adaptive Sleep Scheduling Algorithm
26 \item[DESK] Distributed Energy-efficient Scheduling for K-coverage
27 \item[DILCO] Distributed Lifetime Coverage Optimization
28 \item[DSC] Disjoint Set Covers
29 \item[DTGA] Distributed Truncated Greedy Algorithm
30 \item[EC] Energy Consumption
31 \item[ECG] Electrocardiogram
32 \item[ESA] Effective Sensing Area
33 \item[FIT] Future Internet of the Things
34 \item[GAF] Geographical Adaptive Fidelity
35 \item[GAMS] General Algebraic Modeling System
36 \item[GAS] Geometrically based Activity Scheduling
37 \item[GloMoSim] Global Mobile System Simulator
38 \item[GLPK] GNU Linear Programming Kit
39 \item[GNU] GNU's Not Unix
40 \item[GPS] Global Positioning System
41 \item[GRASP] Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure
42 \item[GTSNetS] Georgia Tech Sensor Network Simulator
43 \item[GUI] Graphical User Interface
44 \item[HREF] High Residual Energy First
45 \item[IP] Integer Programming
46 \item[LP] Linear Programming
47 \item[MAV] Micro Aerial Vehicle
48 \item[MCU] Microcontroller Unit
49 \item[MEMS] Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
50 \item[MILP] Mixed Integer Linear Programming
51 \item[MIP] Mixed Integer Programming
52 \item[MIQP] Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming
53 \item[MIQCP] Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Programming
54 \item[MLP] Maximum-network Lifetime Problem
55 \item[MPL] Mathematical Programming Language
56 \item[MPS] Mathematical Programming System
57 \item[MSCR] Maximum Sensing Coverage Region
58 \item[MuDiLCO] Multiround Distributed Lifetime Coverage Optimization
59 \item[NCG] Node Coverage Grouping
60 \item[NED] NEtwork Description
61 \item[ns-2] Network Simulator-2
62 \item[OMNeT++] Objective Modular Network Testbed
63 \item[OPL] Optimization Programming Language
64 \item[OPNET] Optimized Network Engineering Tool
65 \item[OS] Operating System
66 \item[PDA] Personal Digital Assistant
67 \item[PeCO] Perimeter-based Coverage Optimization
68 \item[PLL] Phase-Locked Loop
69 \item[PS] Pricing Subproblem
70 \item[QCP] Quadratically Constrained Programming
71 \item[QoS] Quality of Service
72 \item[QP] Quadratic Programming
73 \item[RMP] Restricted Master Problem
74 \item[SCADA] Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
75 \item[SENSE] Sensor Network Simulator and Emulator
76 \item[SHM] Structural Health Monitoring
77 \item[UAV] Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
78 \item[VCO] Voltage-Controlled Oscillator
79 \item[VNS] Variable Neighborhood Search
80 \item[WLAN] Wireless Local-Area Network
81 \item[WSN] Wireless Sensor Network
82 %\item[WSNL] Wireless Sensor Node Leader